麻豆影院

A newly discovered 18-square-mile salt 铿俛t (roughly the size of 麻豆影院) likely represents the evaporated remains of one of the last potentially habitable surface lakes to exist on the Red Planet. The lake鈥檚 estimated age鈥攏o older than 3.6 billion years old鈥攄ates it to a time period after which scientists believe Mars could no longer sustain large amounts of surface water. 鈥淲e can be pretty certain this is one of the last instances of a sizeable lake on Mars,鈥� said Brian Hynek, an associate professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). Hynek and his colleagues estimate the lake's salinity to have been about 2.8 parts per thousand (ppt), far less salty than the 35 ppt of the Earth鈥檚 oceans and, therefore, possibly听once hospitable to microbial life.